Adolph stiefel



-(N0 Model.)

A. STIEFEL. BOUQUET HOLDER.

No 606,098. Patented June 21, 1898.

witnesses I I 6 w k xtw e v v awn/nu arts 'rarns ADOLPH STIEFEL, OF HAMMELBURG, GERMANY.

BOUQUET-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 606,098, dated June 21, 1898.

Application filed January 4, 1898. Serial No- 665,525. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH STIEFEL, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Hammelburg, Bavaria, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bouquet-Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a novel bouquetholder, and has for its object the production of a simple, durable, and efficient device which may be readily attached to a garment without injury to the same and which when so attached may be readily adapted for the reception of bouquets of varying sizes, which will be held securely in place.

To this end my invention consists in providing a flaring receptacle of light metal or other suitable material composed of a plurality of longitudinal sections secured at their smaller ends and designed to be adjusted relatively to clamp the stems of flowers composing the bouquet by an adj ustin g-ring movable upon the small or constricted portion of the holder and connected, as by a spring, to the free end of a needle pivoted to the base of the holder and designed after having been passed through the garment to be bent and secured to the upper or flaring portion of the holder,

as by passing the small end of the needle through a minute aperture.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device applied to the lapel of a garment and in position to receive a bouquet. the bouquet clamped in the holder and the holder secured inits proper position by passing the extremity of the needle into the locking-aperture.

Referrin g to the numerals on the drawings, 1. indicates the holder or receptacle proper of any suitable form, but preferably flaring, as shown, and having at its opposite or small end a solid base or cap 2, from which the receptacle proper, composed of a plurality of longitudinal sections 3, extends,

at indicates an adj usting-ring movable upon the holder and designed by being forced toward or from the bearing end thereof to regulate its size and to clamp the sections 3 seofthe drawings.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing curely upon the stem of the bouquet to prevent'its casual displacement. Any suitable means for securing the holder constructed in this manner may be provided; but I prefer to employ a pin 5, having a pointed end 6 and pivoted within a recess 7 in the base, as by a pintle 8, the form of the recess being such that while the pin may assume a position in line with the holder it cannot be turned beyond a position at right angles to the actual line of the holder, as indicated in Fig. 2 7 Thus it will be observed that in order to pass the pin through the garment and to secure its free end to the holder it is necessary that it be bent somewhat, and for this reason it is made sufficiently resilient to enable it to be passed, as indicated in the drawings, through the garment and to have its free end bent inward until it engages a locking-aperture 9 in one of the sections 3, adjacent to the flaring end of the holder. For

the purpose of retaining the adj Listing-ring t in its proper position to keep the resilient sections 3 in close contact with the bouquet I provide a spring 10, secured at one end to the ring 4 and detachably secured at its opposite end to the free end of the pin 5 by a small ring or eye 10, adapted to slide upon the pin after the latter has been passed through the garment.

' It will be observed from the foregoing that I have produced a simple and inexpensive device within which the bouquet may be sethis time to be preferable I do not desire to limit myself to the structural details set out, but reserve the right to change, modify, or vary them at will within the scope of my invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-- l. A bouquet-holder, comprising a plurality of adjustable sections, a ring adjustable longitudinally thereon, and means for retaining said ring in adjusted position.

2. In a bouquet-holder, the combination with a receptacle composed of a plurality of independently-movable sections, flaring at one end, of a longitudinally-adjustable ring designed to encompass said sections, and accomplish their adjustment, and a spring for retaining said ring in adjusted position 3. In a bouquet-holder, the combination with a receptacle composed of a base, a pin for attaching the holder to a garment, and a plurality of independently-movable sections integral with thebase and flaring at their upper ends, of an adjustably-mounted ring designed to encompass said sections and to accomplish their adjustment, and a spring attached at one end to said ring and provided with an eye at its opposite end, through which the pin is adapted to be passed for retaining said ring in adjusted position.

4. The combination with a bouquet-holder having an opening in the body thereof, of a fiexiblepin pivoted to said body and adapted to be bent so that the pointed end thereof may be passed through said openin justing-ring encompassing the sections designed to clamp them upon the stems ofa bouquet, a pin secured at the lower end of the holderand designed to enter a minute aperture adjacent to its upper end, and a 'sprin g secured at its opposite ends to the free. end of thepin, and to the ring.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witn esses.

ADOLPI-I STIEFEL. Witnesses:

YUDA STRAUSS, JAKon GESSNER.

, a. The combination With abouquet-holder composed of a plurality of sections, of an ad- 

